Friday, October 14, 2005

G-Y-M

Today, Vicki and I were driving to downtown to Nashville Tent and Awning to pick up some tarps that Eddie was having repaired. As we got off the exit, trying to find the place, this was our conversation:

Me: So we go through the light?

Vicki: Yeah, we got through the light and make a left. This is where I go to the G-Y-N.

I was thinking, Why does she go all the way down here to go to the gym?? And, WHY is she spelling gym??

Me: What??

Vicki: This is where I go to my GYN. You know, OB? GYN? My OB-GYN!

Me: Ohhhhhh. I thought you said GYM. And I was thinking, why the hell are you spelling gym??

We laughed all the way past the GYM/GYN to the tarp place.

Either I need a hearing aid or I have to sign myself up for a Hooked-On-Phonics class!

3 comments:

Anocsanamun said...

Sound out the word girl - sound it out. I think I may be developing dyslexia. My boss kept spelling a name that ended in cup and I kept telling him it's not WarrenPuck - its Warrencup, he was spelling it right the whole time. I was listening wrong!

Anocsanamun said...

Sound out the word girl - sound it out. I think I may be developing dyslexia. My boss kept spelling a name that ended in cup and I kept telling him it's not WarrenPuck - its Warrencup, he was spelling it right the whole time. I was listening wrong!

Anonymous said...

I see some interesting misspellings on surgical reports all the time. The most famous one is when I read, instead of a "below-the-knee amputation," the patient apparently had a "BALONEY amputation."

And no, his name was NOT Oscar Mayer.

Namaste.
~HDJ